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Agricultural Data Management: Looking to the Cloud for more than Just Tomorrow's Weather

By Dick Weisinger

Agriculture is beginning to adopt data management as farmers begin to look to the cloud for more than just tomorrow’s weather.  Farm businesses are increasingly capturing more data about what’s happening in their fields and analyzing it to achieve greater…

eDiscovery: Businesses Outsource eDiscovery Operations

By Dick Weisinger

The discovery phase of litigation is typically about 15 to 20 percent of the total cost of a litigation case.  Currently the eDiscovery market is about $1 billion.  And a report by AlixPartners found that 22 percent of all litigation cases…

Manufacturing and Cloud Computing: Greater Flexibility and Better Collaboration are Key Benefits

By Dick Weisinger

22 percent of manufacturing and distribution software in 2012 was cloud based, based on a report by Mintjutras.  By 2023 that number is expected to grow to 45 percent.  The report also noted that the larger the company the more…

Federal IT: Seeking Innovation from the Software-Defined Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Federal IT is severely constrained by their existing IT environment, making it difficult to innovate.  $62 billion — 79 percent — of Federal IT budgets is spent updating and maintaining legacy IT systems.  A report by MeriTalk concludes that this…

Security: Businesses Invest in Security Protection Products

By Dick Weisinger

Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection (STAP) is a term used by research firm IDC to designate security threats made by malware against financial and intellectual property theft.  The STAP market is growing at a compound annual rate of 42.2 percent…